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Our paper
"Speech Completion: ``TAB'' on Speech"
presented in the SIG Meeting on Spoken Language Processing (SIGSLP) of the IPSJ (The Information Processing Society of Japan)
was given the
IPSJ SIG Research Award
(medal: whole,
front,
back)
on July 24, 2002.
The awarding ceremony was held on December 19, 2002
at the SIG Meeting on Spoken Language Processing of the IPSJ.
I wish to express my gratitude to those who have supported this project.

In
the special session "The New Stream of Music Databases - J-POP Distribution Revolution"
of
the DBWeb2002 (Symposium on Database and Web Information System),
I had an invited talk entitled
"Music Information Processing for J-POP (Popular Music in Japan) Revolution"
on December 3, 2002.

Our paper
"Speech Completion: New Speech Input Interface Supporting Word Completion"
presented in the 2000 Fall Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan
was given the
Awaya Prize
(award for outstanding presentations given to
promising young researchers, to commemorate Dr. Kiyoshi Awaya)
and the
Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation
on March 15, 2001.
I wish to express my gratitude to those who have supported this project.

News! (1999/05/06):

Our research paper entitled "Real-time Beat Tracking for Musical Audio Signals"
was given the
Best Paper Award for Young Researchers of
The 1998 Kansai-Section Joint Convention of
Institutes of Electrical Engineering, Japan
on April 9, 1999.
I would like to express my gratitude to
everybody who has supported this project.
The recent progress on my research project,
A Real-time Beat Tracking System for Musical Acoustic Signals, was also reported in the
Proceedings of the 1998 International Computer Music Conference,
pp.17-20, October 1998 and
Speech Communication, Vol.27, Nos.3-4, pp.311-335, April 1999.

News! (1997/12/02)

We will perform a remote session "Internet RemoteGIG" between
Tokyo (NTT ICC) and New York (Columbia University) in
U.S.A./Japan InterCollege Computer Music Festival.
The session will start at 11:00 a.m. on December 14th, 1997 (JST).
RemoteGIG is an innovative remote session over the Internet that has a
long delay. It turns the inevitable network latency to its advantage
and offers a new possibility for future remote sessions. RemoteGIG is
an application of the RMCP (Remote Media
Control Protocol), which can provide the bidirectional relay of
packets including MIDI messages over the Internet.

This concert succeeded thanks to
everybody who has supported this project.
With regard to music with tonality and rhythm,
it was the first remote session over the Internet in the world.

News! (1997/11/18)

Our research paper on VirJa Session
was given the IPSJ SIG Research Award 1997 in September, 1997.
This award was reported in the Journal of
Information Processing Society of Japan
(Vol.38, No.11) in November, 1997.
I would like to express my gratitude to
everybody who has supported this project.

News! (1995/08/10)

We have developped an application that displays a CG dancer
whose motion changes with musical beats in real time.
This application has shown that
our system is also useful in various multimedia applications
in which human-like hearing ability is desirable.